Philharmonia Orchestra: Valcuha conducts Beethoven and Dvo&345;ák

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Valcuha conducts Beethoven and Dvořák

Royal Festival Hall
Sun 11 Apr 2010 3:00pm

Juraj Valcuha

conductor

François-Frédéric Guy

piano

Smetana

Ma Vlast

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 4

Dvořák

Symphony No. 8

Dvořák composed his Eighth Symphony in a simple rustic retreat in his beloved Bohemian countryside. The lively and light-hearted symphony appropriately draws its inspiration from the Bohemian folk music that Dvořák loved. Written in 1889 at the height of his international success, particularly in England, the symphony was first published by the English publisher Novello. It received its first performance in London just three months after the première and it has enjoyed an enthusiastic following in the country ever since. This afternoon it is heard alongside Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Smetana’s ‘Vltava’, the second symphonic poem in Ma Vlast (My Country), which portrays the river upon which Prague stands.